crocodile tear

crocodile tear
noun /ˈkrɒkədaɪltɪəz/
A tear shed insincerely, in a false display of sorrow or some other emotion.

At last he contrived to squeeze out one of his little hysterical tears, and drop it on her hand. Now, the girl was not butter, like some of her sex; far from it: but neither was she wood—indeed, she was not old enough for that—so this crocodile tear won her for the time being.


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